Philip Brubaker, ’13: Philip is the film curator at the Geeksboro Coffeehouse Cinema in Greensboro, NC. He continues to co-host the film criticism podcast, In the Queue: Film Conversations with Andrew and Phil. Philip’s long-term documentary Abandoned has been ten years in the making and will be completed in 2015.

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Aaron Canipe, ’15: Work featured online in the literary journal, Oxford American.

Caitlin M. Kelly, ’14: Director of the Power Plant Gallery. Recent exhibitions include The Pill Box Project at ArtFields2015 in Lake City, SC . Mornings in an Empty Room #3 as part of the group exhibition, Radiance at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, IL. She was appointed to the College Art Association, Committee on Women in the Arts (2015-2018) helping to write the monthly ‘picks’ on the best feminist art and scholarship.

Ava Lowrey, ’15: Has two films screening at festivals, (car) Hypnophobia at the Antimatter Film Festvial and The Carrack’s R.E.C.A.P, and The Button King at Cucalorus and Indie Memphis. Ava has also recently been selected as the Southern Foodways Alliance‘s Pihakis Foodways Documentary Fellow at Ole Miss.

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Peter Lisignoli, ’13: Peter is teaching film studies and production at the University of New Mexico. His work was featured at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe with the local micro-cinema, Basement Films. Also, a documentary film edited by Peter on Chicano Author Rudolfo Anaya aired on PBS this fall.

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Annabel Manning, ’13: Has worked for the past four years, collaborating with the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art (Charlotte, NC) on a Jail Arts Initiative organizing an exhibition of works from the Jail Arts Initiative at the Latin American Contemporary Art Projects (LaCa).

Natalie Minik, ’13: Production Coordinator at Cambridge Community Television and teaching Documentary History, Theory and New Directions at Tufts Experimental College.

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Jolene Mok, ’13: Granted an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship.

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Jing Niu, ’14: Jing is currently finishing a video series working with communities in California and their struggle for water justice. She co-produced and narrated a radio story about San Jerardo, a cooperative community for migrant farm workers, airing nationally. Jing was interviewed by Indie Grits Film Festival about her work and recently joined Veuxdo Child Films, a group based in Oakland. She is excited to have an upcoming solo film screening hosted at the Blackhole Cinematheque in November.

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Nicholas Pilarski, ’15: Named CDS Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow, and in October, Nick is at Muestra Internacional de Bogota in Bogota, Colombia with Anna Kipervaser, Aaron Kutnick, and Pedro Lasch as part of the Experimental and Documentary Arts Institute.

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Talena Sanders, ’13: Talena Sanders’ new short film Prospector continues its festival run, with screenings at Oak Cliff Film Festival, Fronteira International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, L’Age d’Or Festival, and the Viennale with screenings at Durham’s Unexposed, Ft. Collin’s Experimental Pints & Pictures, and the Journal of Media Practice Symposium in Wales. Her thesis film, Liahona, screened at Play-Doc [winning the CAMIRA jury prize] and at DokuFest Kosovo. Liahonawas recently acquired for distribution by Documentary Educational Resources, with online streaming on Doc Alliance Films and Fandor. She produced the documentary short 14 Homicides (directed by Jona Gerlach) premiering at Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. Her short film completed as part of the MFA project in Las Vegas will screen at Anthology Film Archives this November [2015]. She’s currently working on an interactive documentary installation on the Montana Bakken oil field communities, and a short experimental documentary on Victorian-era radical feminist diarist Mary MacLane. Along with MFA EDA alumna Jing Niu and filmmaker Kelly Gallagher she co-administers the online film community Femmeworks.